Given name & surname · also Turkish
Shaban
Shaban is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Albanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Shaban comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish شعبان (Şaban), from Arabic شَعَب.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shaban through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 340 as a first name in 2020; 1,159 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shaban’s family of names
Shaban may belong to the same name family as SHABBAN. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shaban
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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